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by sparkie 6y ago
> I used to see brick-and-mortar and online businesses accept Bitcoin, and ATMs; these have all but dried up. People were accepting bitcoin for payments under a flawed assumption that a zero-confirmation transaction was in some way &quot
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by sparkie 6y ago
I'm not defending fraud, I'm attacking credit card fraud and the terrible assumption that sellers must pay for bad policies of the banks or escrows involved in the transactions - policies which assume that people are children and
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This is a poor take. Bitcoin can be made almost instant if paying via the Lightning Network. The downside is that you must pre-load some channels with satoshis that you can spend, which involves a bitcoin transaction which may take a few ho
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One thing that has changed is that the number of people who've gone from 2 to 1 has increased, and the number of people who've gone from 1 to 2 has decreased.
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Bitcoin eliminates card fraud. Once a seller has received the payment and had it confirmed, which takes approximately 1 hour, there is no way it can be reversed. In the current banking system, transactions can be reversed at any time - typi
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by sparkie 6y ago
What makes you think governments are better allocators of capital than billionaires who are obviously producing valuable services and goods? The government is not creating anything: It extracts wealth rather than generates. It wastes an awf
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by sparkie 6y ago
Why do you need to get me to utter the phrase "black lives matter" specifically? Why can you not settle with, "I care about ending all forms of racism," as stated above, or even "I care about black lives"? The
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> "Fake news" referred to actual fake news. Like 5G causes coronavirus, Hillary Clinton runs a secret pedophile ring and literally kills people fake news. This is part true, but not the entire story. "Fake news" was a
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by sparkie 6y ago
This is precisely what I was saying above: unable to separate the phrase from the organization. BLM is an organization. It was created in 2013, way before the recent protests, on tumblr and later got its own website and funding (via Susan R
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by sparkie 6y ago
As I stated above, self-defence is never violence. This includes stating your intent to defend yourself, your family and your property even with lethal force. You shouldn't need to state it though, it should be assumed. A homeowner can
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The founder stated that her and her co-founder are "trained Marxists". Their trainer was Susan Rosenberg, former member of the communist terror group M19CO, who happens to now be vice chair on the board of Thousand Currents, the n
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by sparkie 6y ago
As I said, the State we have is violent by its nature. I'm suggesting this is not what we want. You not trespassing on somebody's home because you don't want your own to be treated that way is a great moral to hold, but not s
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by sparkie 6y ago
Gun ownership is a natural right. You simply do not grasp the meaning of the word "right". It isn't what is in the constitution - that document simply puts a restraint on the US Government from taking away those natural right
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I see you slipped the word "violence" in there. Perhaps you misspelled "defence"? The State is the primary perpetrator of violence, not "the right". You shouldn't be thinking in "left vs right",
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How do individuals meet their obligations to society (if any)? Do they do it through voluntary exchange, altruism and compassion. Or do they do it out of compulsion because they are threatened with violence? The latter is obviously not what
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by sparkie 6y ago
> Trump was trying to silence the press through his rhetoric about "fake news" Trump wasn't trying to "silence the press" - this was left-wing media rhetoric. He was simply calling them out for their sloppy journ
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by sparkie 6y ago
One problem is the inability of media to separate the issues of protesting for change, and the organization Black Lives Matter. As such, the protestors are basically being ignored, and BLM are being lauded. BLM are the "face" of t
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by sparkie 6y ago
The issues of cancel culture and "fighting for rights" should be unrelated. You can be against cancel culture and also against police brutality, for instance. The mob (and GP) wants to categorize you in an out-group so that one op
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by sparkie 6y ago
It's nothing to do with Google being rich - it's about them running an unethical business model of spying on people and selling catalogues of their behavior without their full knowledge or necessarily their consent. (Let's
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by sparkie 6y ago
I do acknowledge that Youtube is a service provider as well as a surveillance company, but I don't agree with the terms on which they operate, so I elect not to use all of their service. I'm not "entitled" to anything, b
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by sparkie 6y ago
I have no problem with paying for a service with money. I do have a problem in paying for it with my data. If the content creator wants my money for their service, they'll provide a way for me to purchase it without having to use an in
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by sparkie 6y ago
Digg's decline began before Web2.0 and any redesign - it was mainly a result of the "bury brigades" killing anything that was remotely interesting through downvotes and leaving it to be a dull feed of mainstream news links, w
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by sparkie 6y ago
Could I suggest reading Thomas Sowell's Intellectuals and Society, or at least, watch this short interview about his book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERj3QeGw9Ok
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by sparkie 6y ago
Who secures this blockchain? How much hashing power do they have? Wait... why did you even need a blockchain?
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The monopoly includes laws around legal tender, which of course, is government money. The government money can be used to settle any debt - this isn't true for other monies. This means that even if the legal tender is rapidly losing it
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> Some people are are not in positions to "assert" their rights. That some people are unable to assert their rights does not give you blanket permission to violate the rights of others. It is up to their family or guardians to
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> Close the “hate crime loophole.” Biden will enact legislation prohibiting an individual “who has been convicted of a misdemeanor hate crime Can you not see the new loophole? Simply convict anybody we don't want owning a firearm of
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Bitcoin fixes this.
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> empathy and social unity required for creating and protecting civil liberties and equality. "empathy," but it's OK to use violent aggressive force against people who don't share my empathy. "social unity,"
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There is a strong association between free market principles and the principle of non-aggression. Others advocate that it is acceptable to use violent aggressive force against people who do not conform to your opinion of how things should b

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